A great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad. The inhabitants of different countries keep quarrelling fiercely with each other and kings go on losing their temper in a most furious way.[1]
Gregory of Tours (c. AD 538-594), The History of the Franks
[1] Gregory of Tours, The
History of the Franks, tr. Lewis Thorpe (Toronto: Penguin, 1974) p.
63. Tours in writing in post-Roman Gaul. These comments appear in his Preface.
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